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After Such Knowledgeby Eva HoffmanISBN 0099464721 (0-09-946472-1)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Such Knowledge'Book summary:As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors, and the second generation's responsibilities to its received memories? Eva Hoffman probes these questions through personal reflections and through broader explorations of the historical, psychological and moral implications of the second-generation experience. She examines the subterranean processes through which private memories of suffering are transmitted, and the more wilful stratagems of collective memory. As she guides us through the poignant juncture at which living memory must be relinquished, she asks what insights can be carried from the past, and urges the need to transform potent family stories into a fully-informed understanding of a forbidding history. [via]
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After Such Knowledge : A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaustby Eva HoffmanISBN 0436206226 (0-436-20622-6)
Hardcover, Random House
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After Such Knowledge Proofby Eva HoffmanISBN 0436598302 (0-436-59830-2)
Softcover, Random House
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Exit into Historyby Eva HoffmanISBN 0749399740 (0-7493-9974-0)
Softcover, Random House
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Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europeby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140145494 (0-14-014549-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe'Book summary:The award-winning author of Lost in Translation travels from the Baltic to the Black Sea, offering both an outsider's perspective and a passionate concern for her native Eastern Europe. 10,000 first printing. [via]
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- Exit into History : A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe: ISBN 0434344265 (0-434-34426-5)
Hardcover, Heinemann Educational Books - Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe: ISBN 0670836494 (0-670-83649-4)
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Lost in the Translationby Eva HoffmanISBN 0749390700 (0-7493-9070-0)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in the Translation'Book summary:The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptical of the newly imposed Communist state. Hoffman's parents managed to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s, where Eva was old enough to feel like a stranger--bland food, a quieter life, and schoolmates who hardly knew where Poland was. Still, there were neighbors who knew something of Old World ways, and a piano teacher who was classically Middle European in his neurotic enthusiasm for music. Her true exile came in college in Texas, where she found herself among people who were frightened by and hostile to her foreignness. Later, at Harvard, Hoffman found herself initially alienated by her burgeoning intellectualism; her parents found it difficult to comprehend. Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars. Lost in Translation is a moving memoir that takes the specific experience of the exile and humanizes it to such a degree that it becomes relevant to the lives of a wider group of readers. [via]
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Lost in Translationby Eva HoffmanISBN 0099428660 (0-09-942866-0)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Languageby Eva HoffmanISBN 0140127739 (0-14-012773-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language'Book summary:The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptical of the newly imposed Communist state. Hoffman's parents managed to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s, where Eva was old enough to feel like a stranger--bland food, a quieter life, and schoolmates who hardly knew where Poland was. Still, there were neighbors who knew something of Old World ways, and a piano teacher who was classically Middle European in his neurotic enthusiasm for music. Her true exile came in college in Texas, where she found herself among people who were frightened by and hostile to her foreignness. Later, at Harvard, Hoffman found herself initially alienated by her burgeoning intellectualism; her parents found it difficult to comprehend. Her sense of perpetual otherness was extended by encounters with childhood friends who had escaped Cracow to grow up in Israel, rather than Canada or the United States, and were preoccupied with soldiers, not scholars. Lost in Translation is a moving memoir that takes the specific experience of the exile and humanizes it to such a degree that it becomes relevant to the lives of a wider group of readers. [via]
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- Lost in Translation : A Life in a New Language: ISBN 0434344249 (0-434-34424-9)
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- Lost in Translation : A Life in a New Language: ISBN 0434344249 (0-434-34424-9)
Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazisby Karolina Lanckoronska, Noel Clark, Eva HoffmanISBN 0306816113 (0-306-81611-3)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr
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A Mortal Musicby Eva HoffmanISBN 0099520885 (0-09-952088-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Mortal Music'Book summary:Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels and arbitrary encounters. Then Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn Chechnya driven by a powerful desire to help and avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other - until a menacing incident throws Isabel into crisis. [via]
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The Secretby Eva HoffmanISBN 0099428458 (0-09-942845-8)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret'Book summary:'Of course, I've always had a secret. Have I always known it? I suppose I did, in a way - in the way that children know such things. That is, I knew and didn't know-'In this novel, Eva Hoffman explores various kinds and strata of secrets: intimate secrets, and secrets of family past; the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the kind that themselves seem to offer tantalizing clues to the fundamental mysteries of the human selfhood. This is a story about a peculiarly powerful mother-daughter bond and about a haunting, about a young woman's quest for individuation and the challenges posed by contemporary science to our deepest notions of individuality. Using the near future to reflect on the conditions of the present, Hoffman has written a tale that grapples with the oldest riddles of identity, consciousness and self-knowledge - a novel of ideas for our time, and an imaginative fable whose resonance is timeless. [via]
Shtetl : The History of a Small Town and an Extinguished Worldby Eva HoffmanISBN 0099274825 (0-09-927482-5)
Softcover, Random House
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Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jewsby Eva HoffmanISBN 0395924871 (0-395-92487-1)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews'Book summary:Relations between Jews and Poles were troubled even before World War II began, writes Eva Hoffman in this powerful memoir of life under Nazi occupation. Dealings between the groups were no easier with the arrival of a common enemy, who exploited longstanding anti-Semitism to destroy the inhabitants of both city and shtetl, the rural Eastern European small town that stood as "the site of the Jewish soul." This extraordinary account of cultures in conflict has led to much discussion--even controversy--in Europe. Hoffman's vigorously defended view of Poland's role in the Holocaust will doubtless generate debate elsewhere. [via]
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- Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews: ISBN 0395822955 (0-395-82295-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Shtetl : The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews: ISBN 0436204827 (0-436-20482-7)
Hardcover, Random House - Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews: ISBN 0395924871 (0-395-92487-1)
Softcover, Mariner Books
- Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews: ISBN 0395822955 (0-395-82295-5)
Untitled Proofby Eva HoffmanISBN 0436598426 (0-436-59842-6)
Softcover, Random House
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